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A peek inside the real Batmobile The strange looking vehicle from Batman Begins is really eight cars. Four of them are truly fast. June 28, 2005; Posted: 11:02 a.m. EDT (1502 GMT)
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NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - If the crouching, jagged Batmobile from the movie "Batman Begins" looks to you like the offspring of a Lamborghini Countach and a Hummer, congratulations. You hit the nail on the head.
When production designer Nathan Crowley was trying to conceive the car's look, he went to a hobby shop and bought 1:12 scale models of a Lamborghini Countach and a Hummer.
Crowley cut those two models apart and combined them, dropping in the cockpit from a model of a P-38 lightening.
"It looked awful," Crowley said. But it was a start, and it was headed in the right direction..........
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